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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 107, Issue 11, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.116804
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- DOE, Office of Basic Energy Sciences [DE-FG02-06ER46313]
- NSF [DMR-0808842]
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The tunneling density of states of both the massless and massive (gapped) particles in metallic carbon nanotubes is known to have an anomalous energy dependence. This is the result of coupling to multiple low-energy bosonic excitation (plasmons). For both kinds of particles the ensuing effect is the suppression of the density of states by electron-electron interactions. We demonstrate that the optical absorption between gapless and gapped states is affected by the many-body effects in the opposite way. The absorption probability is enhanced compared with the noninteracting value and develops a power-law frequency dependence, A(omega) alpha (omega - Delta)(-gamma), where gamma approximate to 0.2 for typical nanotubes.
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